...Kenneth H. Marcus Since the early twentieth century, African Americans in Los Angeles confronted a variety of borders—racial, cultural, economic, and social—in an environment of Jim Crow restrictions. In this article I apply the concept of the borderscape to the multiethnic community of Central...

...S. Janelle Montgomery In 1932 in Depression-era Los Angeles, Mexican muralist David Alfaro Siqueiros took advantage of a unique site on Olvera Street to confront Los Angeles’s establishment on behalf of not only Mexican Americans in California but the proletariat everywhere. The resulting mural...

... those of any one of them. I argue that, despite their disagreements, the Bowl’s founders believed that their collective cultural enterprise had the potential to encourage a sense of cohesion and community among Hollywood’s—and more generally Los Angeles’s—inhabitants. The Hollywood Bowl was the first...

...Yu Tokunaga Launched by Mexican farmworkers against Japanese farmers in Los Angeles, the 1933 El Monte Berry Strike became one of California’s largest labor conflicts. The strike evolved from a local conflict into an international problem in which anti-Japanese sentiment travelled across the U.S...

...William Gow In 1938, the Chinese American community in Los Angeles hosted the Moon Festival in Old Chinatown as a fundraiser for Chinese victims of the Sino-Japanese War. Held against the backdrop of Bowl of Rice fundraisers across the United States, and the demolition of most of Old Chinatown...

...Ryan Fukumori During the 1960s, the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) hosted research surveys focused on two of Southern California’s largest communities of color: the Japanese American Research Project (JARP, 1962–1970) and the Mexican American Study Project (MASP, 1964–1968). While...

...Maxwell Johnson Focusing on the World War I era, this article examines Harry Chandler’s Los Angeles Times and William Randolph Hearst’s Los Angeles Examiner . It argues that these two rival newspapers urged a particular urban identity for Los Angeles during World War I. If Los Angeles was to become...

...Marcia Chatelain “The Miracle of the Golden Arches: Race and Fast Food in Los Angeles” examines the Los Angeles chapter of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) and its advocacy on behalf of the city’s black McDonald’s franchisees. The franchisees believed...

... scores by resident composer Claudius Wilson, to perform for white and black audiences in venues throughout Southern and Northern California during the postwar era. © 2014 by the Pacific Coast Branch, American Historical Association 2014 Ballet Los Angeles African Americans classical music...

... this methodology. Key words: Racial formation, Chicano history (or Mexican American history), Los Angeles, urban history, Zoot Suit riots, Carey McWilliams, Me´ndez v. Westminster I remember a graduate school conversation with a fellow Chicano student about how dif cult it was to be one of the few Chicana/os...

...Laura Renata Martin This article considers the unemployed cooperative movement in Depression-era Los Angeles, an understudied component of unemployed organizing in the 1930s. Cooperativism allowed unemployed people to avoid material deprivation and build political power, but it also became a site...